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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 626353" data-attributes="member: 805">I was fortunate because my easy child lives about 5-7 minutes from here and 1 block from my office!  I can say that it was really tough when she moved out.  She and I have the kind of mother/daughter relationship that I wished I had with my mother.  She is caring, loving, creative, and a great young woman.  I remember how excited she was to get her own place after she graduated from high school.  She was getting an apartment with her best friend and starting college.  We had been collecting things for her new place for several months.  The day I drove away in my car, leaving her to sleep in her new place the first time, I honestly cried.Now, five years removed from that time, we are in a new phase of both our lives.  We have more in common now that she is in her own place, working as a nanny and running a small business.  She has a vintage clothing and housewares business (50's thru 70's) where she sells on Etsy and Instagram and does local festivals and pop up vintage shows.  We go to yard sale and estate sales together, she has dinner with difficult child and I about twice a week, and we talk on the phone usually twice a day!  We have "family dinners" on Sunday (when she first moved out it was Thursday nights) where the kids and I spend time together and share a meal.Life moves on but each phase has it's glory.</blockquote>